Imagining Wellbeing Workshop

Centre for Urban Wellbeing & Centre for Digital Cultures

How do we envision the experience of wellbeing and factors that influence it? How has wellbeing been conceptualized over time? And what can historical, political, legal and creative narratives tell us about the private and communal sustainability of wellbeing? This summer’s Imagining Wellbeing Workshop, co-hosted by the Centre for Urban Wellbeing and Centre for Digital Cultures, will bring together researchers from across the Humanities and Social Sciences to tackle these questions in collaborative and interdisciplinary ways. We’ll explore how we might articulate wellbeing in terms of representation, potential, and creative reimagining. Topics may include:

• Lived realities and imagined possibilities of wellbeing in the past, present and future. 
• Approaches to self-care, happiness, flourishing, comfort and rejuvenation. 
• Relationships between digital and embodied contexts/communications. 
• Personal, political and economic challenges, especially in urban environments. 
• Inclusivity, activism and marginalised experiences of wellbeing. 
• Precarity, mental health, unequal support systems and vulnerable institutions of care. 
• Representations of industry, labour and working conditions.
• Green, urban and online spaces and the experience of environmental change. 

The workshop will take place as a hybrid event in person and via zoom on Wednesday 12th July. We'll have a mix of short position papers and group discussion, with opportunities to reflect on recent research in this area and plans for the future. 

All colleagues are warmly invited - to sign up for a free place, please see our Eventbrite page in the registration link